Wealth, power, and influence: Issues and solutions

An inquiry into values, beliefs and actions

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Hello! 👋

My name is Victoria Stuart (she/her/hers) - a mature trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️ , determined to make the world a better place.

This page introduces my independent research on social justice advocacy - with a focus on universal human, social, and environmental rights.

Vision

I envision a world in which all people live in harmony with one another and sustainably within their environment. A world replete with universal human, social and environmental rights and practices - free of disease, poverty, hunger, discrimination, and inequality.

Mission

My mission seeks to address pressing issues and challenges, including misinformation and disinformation, divisive rhetoric, polarizing ideologies, wealth concentration and inequality, unsustainable economic practices, climate change, and ecological destruction.

Approach

My aim (purpose) is to identify and document socially harmful practices, and to identify and advocate solutions to those practices.

In our post-truth age, I seek to curate factual information so that global citizens may seek, find, and understand the issues they face, and to identify ways to address those issues.

My approach is a sandboxed knowledge engine in which material is carefully vetted, curated, and processed (information extraction).

To accomplish this, I am building a nonprofit educational and advocacy organization - Persagen.org - that includes:

an ebook: Wealth, power, and influence: Issues and solutions, readily accessible to all persons;
a textual knowledge base: Pg-Solr, with advanced search capabilities
an ontology: Eureka!, for categorical placement and understanding of key entities: persons, organizations, ...; and
a knowledge graph: Leibniz, which allows discovery and understanding of semantic relationships among entities.

Research areas

[toggle] Wealth, power, and influence

Entities relevant to this project ^a
^a Partial list: see the Eureka! ontology for a comprehensive listing.
Wealth	Power	Influence
• capitalism	• corporations	• activism, advocacy
\| • corporations	\| • monopolies	\| • lobbying
• finance	\| \| • oligarchy	• advertising
\| • private equity	• government	\| • propaganda
• wealth concentration	\| • judiciary	• charity
• wealth inequality	\| • legislation	\| • donor-advised funds (dark money)
	\| \| • state legislatures	\| \| • campaign finance
	• information	• ideology
	\| • media	\| • alt-right; right-wing; far-right
	• politics	\| • authoritarianism; totalitarianism
	\| • law	\| • capitalism
	\| • political corruption	\| • Christian right
	\| \| • regulatory capture	\| \| • Catholicism
	\| \| • state capture	\| \| • theocracy (dominion theocracy)
		\| • conservatism; social conservatism
		\| • extremism, violent extremism
		\| • fascism
		\| • fundamentalism
		\| • libertarianism
		\| • nationalism, Nazism, neo-Nazism
		\| • populism
		\| • supremacism
		\| • xenophobia
		• majority-minority relations
		• mass media
		\| • influencers

[toggle] Issues and solutions

Entities relevant to this project ^a
^a Partial list: see the Eureka! ontology for a comprehensive listing. ^b Abbreviations: MAGA: Make America Great Again
Issues	Issues (continued)	Solutions
• addiction	• ideology	• activism
• apathy (information fatigue)	\| • conservatism	\| • boycotts
• belief (dogma)	\| \| • Christian right	\| • civil disobedience
\| • post-truth	\| \| \| • anti-abortion movement	\| • labor movement
\| \| • Trumpism (MAGA; QAnon)^b	\| \| • parental rights movement (anti-2SLGBTQIA+)	\| \| • labor unions
• capitalism	• inequality	\| • protests
\| • corporations	• misogyny	\| • strikes (protest)
\| \| • competition (monopolies; oligarchy)	\| • anti-feminism; incels	\| \| • rent strikes
\| \| \| • inflation	\| • transphobia	• education
\| \| • lobbying (legal personhood)	• polarization	\| • active learning
\| \| • private equity (affordable housing)	\| • rhetoric	\| • critical thinking
\| \| • privatization	\| \| • culture wars; populism	\| • higher education (academia)
\| \| • profiteering (food security)	\| \| • wedge tactics	• factual knowledge
\| • wealth concentration, inequality	• poverty	\| • public archives
\| \| • billionaires	\| • homelessness	• government, politics
\| \| \| • meritocracy; oligarchy; plutocracy	\| • hunger	\| • accountability
• discrimination	• privacy (mass surveillance)	\| \| • open government
\| • anti-2SLGBTQIA+	\| • data brokering	\| \| \| • platform costing
\| • Islamophobia; xenophobia	• propaganda	\| \| • transparency
\| • structural violence	\| • deception	\| \| • trust networks
\| \| • systemic racism	\| \| • disinformation	\| \| • whistleblowing
• education	\| \| \| • conspiracy theories	\| • direct democracy
\| • censorship	\| \| \| • fake news	\| \| • citizens' assembly
\| • charter schools (vouchers)	\| \| • misinformation	• philosophy
• environment	\| • denialism	\| • belief
\| • anthropogenic climate change	\| \| • election denial	\| \| • persuasion
\| • ecological destruction	\| \| • climate change denial	\| \| \| • dialogue
• government	\| • greenwashing, sportswashing	\| • social philosophy
\| • authoritarianism	\| • social media	\| \| • critical theory
\| • democratic backsliding	\| \| • influencers	• socialism
\| • extremism	• pseudoscience	\| • eco-socialism
\| • protofascism	\| • climate change denial	\| • social democracy
\| • regulatory capture (corporations)	• synthetic media (artificial intelligence)	\| \| • welfare state
	\| \| • deepfakes	\| \| \| • taxation \& redistribution
	\| \| • large language models	\| \| \| \| • wealth tax
	• women's rights	• society
	\| • reproductive rights	\| • social concepts
		\| \| • common good

Solutions

Beyond the scope of this landing page, I document potential solutions to societal challenges. Please see the "Solutions" section (Part V) in the table of contents in my Wealth, Power and Influence: Issues and solutions" ebook.

Please donate 🙏

Please donate to support this work and our shared values and outcomes

Mentioned in my biographical profile, I am fully dedicating to addressing societal challenges - largely a solo effort.

I have faced profound age-related discrimination in my search for employment.

Your support enables me to work on this project (research and advocacy), and develop and advance this nonprofit organization, Persagen.org.

Land acknowledgement

I acknowledge with gratitude that I live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples - the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Across Canada, we operate on the unceded, stolen and treatied traditional territories of hundreds of diverse Indigenous nations, which include Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ Indigenous communities. If you are unsure on whose lands you are currently working on and living on, please refer to Native Land Digital to learn more.

Lastly, as an ally inform yourself on the historical trauma - e.g. the Canadian Indian residential school system and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Wikipedia) | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Government of Canada)), treaty violations, colonialism - and persistent institutional (systemic) racism and structural violence perpetuated upon Indigenous peoples.

Kathleen DuVal's excellent 2024 book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America provides a scholarly (U.S.-centric) overview of Native American civilizations and societies pre- and post-European colonialization.